Fairy tales, fables and folk tales

The Sad Story of the Yaoya's Daughter

Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales
Japanese

Easy

6 min read

There was a wandering ballad-singer who came to a great house in Yedo where they wished to be entertained. “Will you have a dance or a song?” said the ballad-singer; “or shall I tell you a story?” The people of the house bade him tell a story. “Shall it be a tale of love or […]

Right Always Remains Right

A. H. Wratislaw
Slavic

Advanced

9 min read

There was once upon a time a huntsman, who had a son, who was also a huntsman. He sent his son into a foreign land, to look about him and learn something additional. Here he went into a tavern, where he found a stranger, with whom he entered into conversation. They told each other all […]

Grasp All, Lose All

Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books
Indian

Intermediate

14 min read

Once, in former times, there lived in a certain city in India a poor oil-seller, called Déna, who never could keep any money in his pockets; and when this story begins he had borrowed from a banker, of the name of Lena, the sum of one hundred rupees; which, with the interest Lena always charged, […]

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